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  • Munro, Alice
    THE PROGRESS OF LOVE

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 11 stories which won Canada's most prestigious literary prize: the Governor General's Award. Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. ISBN: 0-394-55272-5.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 24342
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  • RUNAWAY: Stories. by Munro, Alice.
    Munro, Alice.
    RUNAWAY: Stories.

    Edition: Later printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.

    Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 46095
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  • RUNAWAY: Stories. by Munro, Alice.
    Munro, Alice.
    RUNAWAY: Stories.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.

    Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (crinkling to lower edge of front cover of dj.)

    Book ID: 47142
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  • RUNAWAY: Stories. by Munro, Alice.
    Munro, Alice.
    RUNAWAY: Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83089
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  • RUNAWAY: Stories. by Munro, Alice.
    Munro, Alice.
    RUNAWAY: Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (previous owner's name, dust jacket has a sticker announcing "Giller Prize finalist" although this went on to win the prize)

    Book ID: 83088
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  • OPEN SECRETS: Stories. by Munro, Alice.
    Munro, Alice.
    OPEN SECRETS: Stories.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994 dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Canadian author's eighth book, a collection of eight powerful short stories. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-679-435751.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 62247
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  • THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN. by Munro, Alice.
    Munro, Alice.
    THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this Nobel prize winning Canadian writer. This collection won Canada's Giller Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403957.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83085
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  • THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN. by Munro, Alice.
    Munro, Alice.
    THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this Nobel prize winning Canadian writer. This collection won Canada's Giller Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403957.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (upper corner of front endpaper torn, signs of being read)

    Book ID: 83086
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  • RUNAWAY: Stories. by Munro, Alice.
    Munro, Alice.
    RUNAWAY: Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (edges of boards bumped, light soiling to back cover of dj)

    Book ID: 79959
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  • DEAR LIFE: Stories. by Munro, Alice. Foreword by Jane Smiley.
    Munro, Alice. Foreword by Jane Smiley.
    DEAR LIFE: Stories.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen stories, most set in the small Canadian towns around Lake Huron (although the characters sometimes travel out to the cities) by this award winning writer. It preceded her winning the Nobel Prize for literature - an award which cited her as a "master of the contempory short story." 319 pp. ISBN: 978-0307596888.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 68526
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  • FAMILY FURNISHINGS: Selected Stories, 1995-2014. by Munro, Alice. Signed by Jane Smiley.
    Munro, Alice. Signed by Jane Smiley.
    FAMILY FURNISHINGS: Selected Stories, 1995-2014.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects 24 of the best stories from two decades of writing by this Nobel Laureaute, arranged chronologically based on original publication. Foreword by Jane Smiley. An excellent introduction to the writing of this author. SIGNED by Smiley on the title page. Bibliographic note. xii, 620 pp. ISBN: 978-1101874103.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 67080
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  • MIDNIGHT CAB. by Nichol, James W.
    Nichol, James W.
    MIDNIGHT CAB.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Cannongate, (2005.). First edition - Gripping first novel - the story of a young man's search for his mother who abandoned him when he was 3 - winner of the Ellis Award for best first novel when it was originally published in Canada in 2002.

    Condition: Fine (a new copy) in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 31372
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  • BROKEN WINDOWS: Stories. by Nolan, Patricia
    Nolan, Patricia
    BROKEN WINDOWS: Stories.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.

    Vancouver, BC: Polestar Book Publishers, (1996). First edition - "Nolan skillfully shows how darkly humorous and devasting life can be." 149 pp. ISBN: 1-896095208.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 54621
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  • Ondaatje, Michael.
    THE CAT'S TABLE.

    Edition: 5th printing (in the same year as the first)

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. dj. Hardcover - Sixth novel by this Booker Prize winning author, who was born in Sri Lanka but now lives in writes in Canada. In 1950 a young boy boards a ship bound for England in Columbo, and during the voyage he is seated at "the cat's table" - as far from the Captain's table as one can get. A story about the often forbidden discoveries of childhood, and the beginning of a life-long journey. 269 pp. ISBN: 9780307700117.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (nick to dj at bottom of spine)

    Book ID: 59387
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  • ICE & FIRE: Dispatches from the New World, 1988 - 1998. by Osborne, Stephen.
    Osborne, Stephen.
    ICE & FIRE: Dispatches from the New World, 1988 - 1998.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, (1998). First edition - Essays, written with "a poet's eye and an explorer's heart" - mostly on Canada, but also ranging into other parts of the "new world" by this award-winning writer. The final essay is a moving meditation on the life and death of a friend. 200 pp. ISBN: 1-551520613.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with French flaps.

    Book ID: 67476
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  • Paterson, Edith.
    TALES OF EARLY MANITOBA from the Winnipeg Free Press.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    1970. Centennial collection.

    Condition: Crease on corner of front cover and several pages, toning to pages, some mustiness.

    Book ID: 14260
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  • Pratt, E. J.
    COLLECTED POEMS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes all of the long narrative poems on heroic themes for which this Canadian writer is best known (including 'Dunkirk' and 'Brebeuf and His Brethren' on the French missionaries in 17th century Ontario) as well as his lyric and satiric verse - and especially his lyrical poems about the sea and seafaring.

    Condition: Near fine in a somewhat worn, but still good, dustjacket (long closed tear on front cover, spine sunned, few small chips)

    Book ID: 16262
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  • Quarrington, Paul.
    HOME GAME.

    Edition: First edition.

    Toronto: Doubleday, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - In this story of a marooned circus sideshow troupe, a former baseball hero, and a Michigan village dominated by a fundamentalist religious sect, the author confronts some of the highest as well as the least desirable aspects of human motivation. Second novel by this Canadian author who has been compared to Tom Robbins and John Irving.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 13949
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  • Ralph Connor [pseudonym of Charles Wilbur Gordon, 1860-1937]
    CORPORAL CAMERON OF THE NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE: A Tale of the Macleod Trail.

    Edition: First edition.

    Toronto: The Westminster Company, 1912. Hardcover first edition - A tale of the northwest frontier and of the Canadian mounties by this prolific and very popular author. Gordon was a Presbyterian Minister who bacame a missionary in Western Canada, giving him first hand knowledge of the scenes he wrote about. Printed many times, this is rather uncommon in the first Canadian edition, Basis of the 1921 silent film, "Cameron of the Royal Mounted." 454 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

    Condition: Good condition in tan cloth with gold lettering, embossed front cover - some spine slant, front hinge starting, minor rubbing and wear. Gift inscription dated December 1912.

    Book ID: 36969
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  • WHERE HAS SHE GONE. by Ricci, Nino.
    Ricci, Nino.
    WHERE HAS SHE GONE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award-winning Canadian writer, set in Toronto and in Italy. SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-771074549.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 64910
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  • LIVES OF THE SAINTS. by Ricci, Nino.
    Ricci, Nino.
    LIVES OF THE SAINTS.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Ontario, Canada: Cormorant Books, (1991). "Set in the Valle del Sole, a tiny village nestled in Italian Appenines, this novel tells the story of young Vittorio Innocente and of his mother, Christina, whose affair with a mysterious blue-eyed stranger abruptly shatters the innocence of Vittorio's childhood." Winner of the Governor General's Award, Winnifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1991 and a Betty Trask Award 1991 and more. The first book in a trilogy. 238 pp. . ISBN: 0-920953-255.

    Condition: Very good.

    Book ID: 67289
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  • BACHELOR BROTHERS' BED & BREAKFAST. by Richardson, Bill.
    Richardson, Bill.
    BACHELOR BROTHERS' BED & BREAKFAST.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Vancouver / Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, (1993). SIGNED - "Welcome to the Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast, a rustic retreat on a beautiful island off the west coast of British Columbia. Your hosts are the endearingly eccentric Hector and Virgil, twins by birth though not by nature. Their B&B attracts a particular and sometimes peculiar clientele." The first of several books about this retreat for bibliophiles. INSCRIBED on the title page "To --- Golf rhymes with -uh, rolf? All best." Winner of The Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. 152 pp. ISBN: 1550541129.

    Condition: Fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 57799
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  • THE BLUE CIRCUS. by Savoie, Jacques.
    Savoie, Jacques.
    THE BLUE CIRCUS.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Ontario: Cormorant Books, (1997). First edition - "In The Blue Circus Jacques Savoie plunges into a world in which music harmonizes with the poetry of Baudelaire. In the same breath he transports us beyond words into a place where the memories that we think we share can be transformed into dreams." Translated from the French by Sheila Fischman.154 pp. ISBN: 1-89695104X.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 55762
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  • LARRY'S PARTY by Shields, Carol.
    Shields, Carol.
    LARRY'S PARTY

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Viking, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel named one of the best books of the year by Publishers' Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle and others, winner of the Orange Prize and the 1998 Women's Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the Giller. The US edition preceded the Canadian for this title. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-670-873926.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 25970
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  • Shields, Carol.
    LARRY'S PARTY.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Penguin, 1998. A novel named one of the best books of the year by Publishers' Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle and others. Winner of the Orange Prize and the 1998 Women's Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the Giller. ISBN: 0-14-0266771.

    Condition: Fine.

    Book ID: 26096
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  • LARRY'S PARTY. by Shields, Carol.
    Shields, Carol.
    LARRY'S PARTY.

    Edition: First Canadian edition.

    Toronto: Random House, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel, winner of the Orange Prize and the 1998 Women's Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the Giller. The US edition preceded the Canadian for this title. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-679-308776.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 27454
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  • SWANN. by Shields, Carol.
    Shields, Carol.
    SWANN.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which tells the stories of four very different people - including a feminist scholar, a literary biographer, a small-town librarian - whose lives become entwined in the mysteries surrounding the life and murder of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet. Winner of the Arhur Ellis Award. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-670-82822x.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (usual toning to the pages, remainder line.)

    Book ID: 34327
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  • LARRY'S PARTY by Shields, Carol.
    Shields, Carol.
    LARRY'S PARTY

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Viking, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel, winner of the Orange Prize and the 1998 Women's Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the Giller. The US edition preceded the Canadian for this title. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-670-873926.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (faint crease on front endpaper.)

    Book ID: 36637
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  • LARRY'S PARTY. by Shields, Carol.
    Shields, Carol.
    LARRY'S PARTY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Viking, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel, winner of the Orange Prize and the 1998 Women's Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the Giller. The US edition preceded the Canadian for this title. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-670-873926.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 45810
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  • Shields, Carol.
    THE STONE DIARIES.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Penguin, (1995.). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Photographs. 361 pp plus a reader's guide. ISBN: 0-14-023313x.

    Condition: Good overall (remainder line, usual toning to pages, minor wear.).

    Book ID: 47012
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